Divorce and Non-Sacramental Marriage

[Joe_Kelley]

The Church, starting with Saint Paul, teaches that a non-Sacramental Marriage, one in which one or both parties were not Baptized, may be dissolved to permit one party to practice the Catholic Faith - Pauline or Petrine Privilege. However at the time Jesus forbid divorce there was no Baptism and hence no sacramental marriages. thus He must have been forbidding divorce in non-Sacramental Marriages.

Just some idle curiosity on my part.

 

[1ke]

Joe Kelley:

The Church, starting with Saint Paul, teaches that a non-Sacramental Marriage, one in which one or both parties were not Baptized, may be dissolved to permit one party to practice the Catholic Faith - Pauline or Petrine Privilege. However at the time Jesus forbid divorce there was no Baptism and hence no sacramental marriages. thus He must have been forbidding divorce in non-Sacramental Marriages.

Just some idle curiosity on my part.

Jesus was speaking to Jews. Jews were under the Old Covenant. Their entry into the covenant was circumcision, not baptism. Therefore, their marriage would have been a covenant marriage under the old covenant and therefore, a type of the sacramental marriage to come in the new covenant. We are under the New Covenant, whose entry point is baptism.